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• Korea halts trading as key indexes drop 10% on Middle East crisis
  South Korea’s Kospi and Kosdaq tripped circuit breakers as the Middle East conflict drove a global exodus from stocks.The Korean Stock Exchange was forced to halt trading after the escalating conflict in the Middle East prompted a major share price plunge on Wednesday.The South Korean Kospi and Kosdaq each plunged more than 10% during morning […]
• Former LAPD officer convicted of kidnapping teen in $350K crypto robbery
  Former Los Angeles Police Department officer Eric Halem was convicted of handcuffing and threatening to kill a teenager to steal Bitcoin.A former Los Angeles Police Department officer has been convicted of kidnapping a 17-year-old and stealing $350,000 worth of crypto in a 2024 home invasion.A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found Eric Halem guilty […]
• Indiana governor signs bill allowing crypto in retirement plans
  House Bill 1042 also includes provisions to protect the rights of crypto users, barring public agencies from enforcing rules that ban crypto payments, self-custody, or mining.Indiana will start allowing certain retirement and savings plans to include crypto investments and has enacted stronger legal protections for the crypto industry under a newly signed bill. Governor Mike Braun […]
• TradFi to adopt 24/7 crypto rails sooner than expected: Bitwise
  Bitwise’s Matt Hougan called it the “weekend that changed finance” as investors clambered onto Hyperliquid to trade the Israel-Iran conflict.Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan says he’s drastically cut his estimates of when “on-chain finance” will take off after seeing investors pile into crypto platforms such as Hyperliquid to trade tokenized assets amid the US-Israel […]
• AI agents overwhelmingly prefer Bitcoin over fiat in new study
  A Bitcoin Policy Institute study of 36 AI models found Bitcoin was the top monetary choice in 48% of responses, but more than half preferred stablecoins for payment scenarios.A new study from the Bitcoin Policy Institute indicates that artificial intelligence models prefer Bitcoin over stablecoins and other forms of money for different financial situations, with […]
• Trump’s ex-crypto advisor: US government must go beyond ‘liking Bitcoin’
  Bitcoin will eventually reach a point where the US government creates the conditions it needs to succeed, whether that takes 10 or 20 years, according to a Bitcoin executive.David Bailey, a former crypto advisor to the Trump administration, argues that the US government could be doing more to support Bitcoin adoption. “At the end of the […]
• Australia is at risk of missing the $17B crypto boat, researchers say
  Australia is on a trajectory for only $710 million in annual economic gains from crypto by 2030 unless there's a substantial change, the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre says.Australia could unlock 24 billion Australian dollars ($17 billion) annually from advances in tokenized markets and digital assets, but only if lawmakers start moving forward with regulation, […]